Cabinet support



March 17, 1959 R. c. cARLsoN 2,877,973

CABINETSUPPORT Filed Sept. 23, 1955 INVENTOR.

Zeoe 0 C. (w/J6 'AIATTORNEY United States Pa CABINET SUPPORT Reuben C. 'flarlson, River Grove, Ill., assignor to Admiral Corporation, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Delaware Application September 23, 1955, Serial No. 536,235

3 Claims. (Cl. 248-163) This invention relates to improvements in furniture supports and more particularly to a leg formation adapted for use on devices such as television receivers where it is desired to turn the receiver so that the screen will face in different directions.

Heretofore it has been proposed to make supports for television receiver cabinets which have had casters thereon to enable the cabinet to be turned. It is also common to provide a fixed leg structure having a pivotal platform at the top whereby the receiver may be turned. When the casters are used they are satisfactory if they rest on a hard surface. However, in the case of carpeting having a deep pile they do not turn readily and also cause depressions in the pile which are undesirable. Furthermore they require frequent lubrication which makes them dust collectors and the lubricant is apt to soil the carpeting.

The swivel or turntable type have the disadvantage that when the cabinet is turned relative to the legs the appearance of the ensemble is disrupted. In both of the above cases the installation and cost of parts is relatively expensive.

By my present invention I have provided a leg support which turns as well, if not easier, on carpeting as on hard surfaces. It requires no lubrication and the symmetry of the ensemble is not upset. Furthermore the cost of the same is no more if not less than conventional legs.

For a further understanding of the invention reference may be had to the accompanying drawings illustrating some embodiments thereof, and wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a set of legs embodying my invention with a television cabinet shown thereon in dot-dash lines;

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating how the cabinet may be turned thereof;

Fig. 3 is a view of another modification; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detail of a modified form of fastener.

Referring now to the drawings throughout which like parts are illustrated by like reference characters, there is illustrated pairs of leg elements wherein each element comprises a pair of upright portions 10, the upper ends of which are each provided with horizontally extending parts 11 adapted to be secured to the bottom of a television cabinet 12 by screws 13.

Preferably the legs slant outwardly in order to allow the attaching parts 11 to be spaced inwardly of the sides of the cabinet and to provide for greater stability of the support. Each of the uprights connects with the ends of a curved floor engaging portion 14. The curvature of the fioor engaging portion is on a radius 15 as shown by the dashed lines. Each element is designed so that its radius of curvature is the same as that for the other, the two therefore lying on a common circle.

When this structure is applied to a television cabinet, as shown, it will be apparent that the set may be easily turned from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that of Fig. 2 and that the floor engaging portions being on ICE the circumference of a common circle turn easily and smoothly. The deeper the pile the easier they turn.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modified form wherein the uprights 10' are substantially vertical and they are secured in the cabinet by passing through holes in the bottom of the cabinet and are secured therein by'nuts 17 disposed on opposite sides of the cabinet bottom and on the threaded end 18 of the uprights.

In this case another modification is also shown which may also be combined with that of Fig. 1, in that the uprights 10' connect to the fioor engaging parts 14 by slanting portions 20, which slant downwardly and outwardly to the runners 14. The slanting portions 20 prevent the terminating portions of the floor engaging parts 14 from digging into the carpeting and facilitate the turning action. In this instance they also serve to space the floor engaging parts 14 outwardly to provide the stability obtained in the other embodiment by the outwardly slanting uprights 10.

Fig. 4 shows another form of attachment where the uprights 10 is provided with a stop washer 22 which is held in position and the upright spaced from the end by engagement with integral lugs 25. The end portion provides a pintle or stem 23 which is secured in a metal friction socket 24 which is generally inverted cup shape and may be provided with kerfs that define tongues which frictionally engage the stem 23 by means of beads 26 on the end of the tongues.

Having thus described my invention I am aware that numerous and extensive departures may be made therefrom without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In combination with a television receiver cabinet, a pair of supports for said cabinet, each of said supports comprising a rod-like floor-engaging segment extending arcuately in a horizontal plane below the cabinet and a pair of support segments respectively having rigid integral .connections at their lower ends to opposite ends of the floor-engaging segment and extending upward therefrom and connected respectively at their upper ends to the cabinet to support the cabinet from said floor-engaging segment, each of the floor-engaging segments extending a distance substantially equivalent to the corresponding transverse dimension of the overlying portion of the cabinet, and the floor-engaging segments of the respective supports lying in a common plane and extending on a circle common to both to facilitate turning of the cabinet and the supports about the center of said circle.

2. A manually rotatable stand for an article of furniture comprising a pair of similarly formed supports, each of said supports having a rod-like fioor-engaging arcuate segment in a horizontal plane, the arcuate segments of said pair of supports formed on a common radius to compositely present opposite arcs of the same circle when convexly attached to said article of furniture, each of said supports having a pair of upright portions extending substantially vertically from the horizontal arcuate segment and terminating in extended portions, said extended portions attachable to the base of said article of furniture to provide an integral assembly manually rotatable as a unit.

3. A manually rotatable stand for an article of furniture comprising a pair of similarly formed supports, each of said supports having a rod-like floor-engaging arcuate segment in a horizontal plane, the arcuate segments of said pair of supports formed on a common radius to compositely present opposed arcs of the same circle when attached to an article of furniture in convexly opposed relationship to each other, each of said supports having a pair of upright portions extending substantially vertically from the horizontal arcuate segment 3 and terminating in extended portions, slanting portions References Cited in the file of this patent between said arcuate segments and said upright portions UNITED STATES PATENTS to provide gradual transition of said supports from said horizontal arcnate segments to said vertical upright por- D 155'547 Smith 1949 tions, said extended portions attachable to the base of 5 g g said article of furniture to provide a unitary assembly, 1550708 2 1925 said arcuate segments and said slanting portions per- 1810855 gzig g ag 1931 mittmg relatively frictionless rotation between said 218- 2,502,857 Kipp Apr. 4, 1950 sembly and a floor. 

